NEKROGOBLIKON: Welcome to Bonkers
NEKROGOBLIKON
Welcome to Bonkers
MUSIC BOX
5/10
GOBLIN METAL: One of the reasons Dethklok works as well as it does is that Brendan Smalls fully understands that if...
MONOTHEIST: Scourge
MONOTHEIST
Scourge
PROSTHETIC
7/10
PROGRESSIVE DEATH: Proving that the Floridian death metal scene is still churning out new talent, Monotheist strides into view with a pummeling debut that...
MIKE LEPOND’S SILENT ASSASSINS: Pawn and Prophecy
MIKE LEPOND’S SILENT ASSASSINS
Pawn and Prophecy
FRONTIERS
9/10
POWER METAL: Mike LePond, the powerhouse bassist of seminal progressive power metal band Symphony X, loves to step outside...
HUNTSMEN: American Scrap
HUNTSMEN
American Scrap
PROSTHETIC
9/10
AMERICANA METAL: Chicago’s Huntsmen blends Americana storytelling with the metal muscle of bands such as Neurosis, Red Fang, and High on Fire on...
ERDVE: Vaitojimas
ERDVE
Vaitojimas
SEASON OF MIST
9/10
SLUDGY HARDCORE: With a distinct experimental element to their music, the sludgy, blackened hardcore comprising Erdve’s debut full-length is unsettling, affecting stuff....
AVATAR: Avatar Country
AVATAR
AVATAR COUNTRY
(EONE)
8/10
EPIC METAL: Having initially established themselves as a melodic death metal band before evolving into a more nu metal affair, Avatar continues to...
KEVIN LYMAN: A Warped Retrospective
As part of Outburn’s Warped Tour retrospective, and with the tour on its final cross country run, we sat down and to talk with its creator and curator Kevin Lyman about the history of Warped Tour—where it started and the journey that got it to where it is today.
THY ANTICHRIST: Wrath of the Beast
THY ANTICHRIST
Wrath of the Beast
NAPALM
8/10
BLACK METAL: The Thy Antichrist story is an interesting one. Originally formed as El Anticristo in late 90s Medellin, Columbia,...
TESSERACT: Sonder
TESSERACT
Sonder
KSCOPE
9/10
PROG METAL PERFECTION: It would be unfair to suggest that listening to an album from British prog virtuosos TesseracT front to back is anything...
TENGGER CAVALRY: Cian Bi
TENGGER CAVALRY
Cian Bi
NAPALM
8/10
FOLKED UP METAL: The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Nature Ganganbaigal, Tengger Cavalry offers a surprisingly varied, variously surprising take on the...